[mythtv-users] Programmable skip on playback

[DryHeat122]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 10:03 AM Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 10/06/2022 16:40, Mike Perkins wrote:
> > On 09/06/2022 06:33, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> >> On Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:23:15 +1200, you wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 19:49:52 -0700, you wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> For a couple of shows I record, the commercial detector fails so I
> have to
> >>>> manually skip them. The commercial breaks are always a fixed length
> like
> >>>> 300 sec. For the standard forward skip (right arrow) of 30 sec that's
> 10
> >>>> keypresses. Is there a way to define some other custom key to skip
> forward
> >>>> 300 sec?
> >>>
> >>> You can just type 1 0 and then the right arrow.  Typing a number in
> >>> front of an arrow key repeats that action the specified number of
> >>> times.
> >>
> >> Oops, no that is wrong.  Type 3 then right arrow to go 3 minutes.
> >>
> > You don't even have to do that. For my remote, Down Program Arrow in
> Playback mode moves exactly 5
> > minutes. I use it all time.
> >
> > (Up Program Arrow moves you back a big chunk, but I haven't measured it.)
> >
> >
> I think I confused myself, if not the readership. The remote is a floor
> away and my fingers just
> know where to go after all this time. The buttons I'm talking about are
> PgUp and PgDn, of course.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins


Thanks for the suggestions all.  The number multiplier for the arrow keys
is very helpful.  I went hunting in the front end settings to see if I
could change the skip interval, but could only find something that mapped
keys to commands. If someone knows where to find it please let me know.
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